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Shut Up by Black Eyed Peas

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Black Eyed Peas Are An American Hip Hop/pop Group Formed In Los Angeles In 1995. The Group's Current Line-Up Consists Of Will.I.Am Taboo And Apl.De.Ap. Black Eyed Peas Have So-Far Sold An Estimated 56 Million Albums And Singles Worldwide. Black Eyed Peas Went To Centenary State High School And Got Their Start In 1988 When Will.I.Am born 1975 William James Adams Jr. And Apl.De.Ap born 1974 Allan Pineda Began Rapping And Performing Together Around Los Angeles. The Pair Signed To Ruthless Records run By Eazy-E After Catching The Attention Of The Nephew Of Jerry Heller Eazy-E's Manager . Along With Mookie Mook Burning Star Dante Santiago & DJ Motiv8 They Called Their Group A.T.B.A.N. Klann. Their Debut Album 'Grass Roots' Was Not Released Originally Because Ruthless Did Not Consider The Social Themes Reflected In The Group's Music To Be Marketable To Their Audience. A Single "Puddles Of H2O" Was Released In 1994 But No Album Was Released until It Leaked Onto The Internet In The Mid 2000s . After Eazy-E Died Of An AIDS Related Illness In 1995 They Changed Their Name To Black Eyed Peas Will.I.Am Explained On The Front Cover Of The Monkey Business Album That "Black Eyed Peas Are Food For The Soul" Hence The Name. Will.I.Am Has Cited The Red Hot Chili Peppers As An Influence And Said He Named His Band After A Food Like Them. They Replaced Their Original Third Member Mookie With Dante Santiago The Peas Original Singer. Then Taboo born Jaime Gomez Joined The Group. Dante Santiago Took On A Role As A Guest Vocalist In The Band And Featured Frequently On Various Tracks For Their First Four Albums. In 1996 They Produced And Appeared On A Song Entitled "That's Right" For Brian Austin Green's Hip-Hop Album One Stop Carnival. Later They Began Using Kim Hill As A Steady Background Singer. Unlike Many Hip-Hop Acts They Chose To Perform With A Live Band And Adopted A Musical And Clothing Style That Differed Wildly From The "gangsta Rap" Sounds Of Other Los Angeles-Based Hip-Hop Acts At The Time. Through The Mid-'90s They Performed In The Local Club Circuit Alongside Fellow Acts Such As Ozomatli And Jurassic 5. The Group Were Signed To Interscope Records And Released Their Debut "Behind The Front" In 1998. The Album Won The Group and Their Accompanying Live Band The Bucky Jonsons Critical Acclaim. The Album Featured The Single "Joints & Jams" Which Was Included On The Bulworth Soundtrack. Their Second Album "Bridging The Gap" Was Released In 2000 It Featured The Single "Request Line" Featuring Macy Gray. After Replacing Their Female Background Singer With Fergie The Group Released Their Breakout Album "Elephunk" And Their 2005 Album "Monkey Business" Which Featured The Hit Singles "Pump It" "Don't Phunk With My Heart" "Don't Lie" And "My Humps". "The E.N.D. The Energy Never Dies " Their Fifth Album Was Released Worldwide In June 2009 And Has Managed To Sell 5 Million Copies In 8 Months Elephunk 7 Million Monkey Business 10 Million . It Already Spawned 2 Of The Most Downloaded Singles Of All Time "Boom Boom Pow" And "I Gotta Feeling" Both Were Downloaded 5 Million Times Only In The USA. The 3rd Single "Meet Me Halfway" Was Downloaded 2 Million Times And The 4th "Imma Be" Which Was Just Released Already Sold 1 Million. "Rock That Body" Is The 5th Single. Http //

Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Shut Up

"Shut Up" Is A Song By The American Hip Hop Band The Black Eyed Peas. The 2003 Single Is The Second One Taken From Their 2003 Album Elephunk. It Is About A Disastrous Courtship With The Chorus Consisting Of The Lines "shut Up Just Shut Up Shut Up". Will.I.Am Needed A Female Singer For The Song So He Brought In Fergie. She Helped Out In Most Of The Songs In "Elephunk" And Eventually Became The Fourth Member Of The Black Eyed Peas In 2003. While Will Apl.De.Ap And Taboo Were Making The Song Their Girlfriends' Phone Calls Would Interrupt The Session. Will Said "The Vibe Was Blown" And Taboo Said "So We Turned The Negative Into Positive" By Adding The Problems They Were Having Into The Song They Were Making. The Song Contains An Uncredited Sample Of Kurtis Blow's "Tough." "Shut Up" Was Not Released In The U.S. But Became An Instant Success Internationally. "Shut Up" Was Released As The Album's Second Single In Late 2003 After "Where Is The Love?". There Is A Remix Version On The Deluxe Version Of The Fifth Studio Album The E.N.D. Titled "Shut The Phunk Up" The Knee Deep/E.N.D. Remix Samples The Song Knee Deep By Funkadelic. In December 2010 Funkadelic Leader George Clinton Filed A Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Will.I.Am Fergie And Universal Music. Clinton Claimed That He Did Not Give His Permission For The Sample And That His Signature Was Forged On The Release Form. The Single Has Become An International Success Reaching #1 In Australia Austria Belgium Canada Spain France Germany Ireland Italy New Zealand Norway Romania Sweden And Switzerland. The Single Also Reached #2 In The United Kingdom And The Netherlands And Also Peaked At #3 In Finland. "Shut Up" Has Become One Of The Black Eyed Peas' Most Successful Singles To Date And Was Only Slightly Weaker Than The Preceding Single. "Shut Up" Was The Black Eyed Peas' First Song To Chart On The Latin America Top 40 Tied With "Hey Mama" Which Debuted The Same Week At #35. It Debuted In The Week That The Chart Was Created At #28 Peaking Two Weeks Later At Number #24 In Its First Run The Single Fell Off The Chart Three Weeks Later And Returned Five Weeks Later At #37 And This Time The Single Peaked At #18. In Germany It's The Best-Selling Single Of The Band Just Behind I Gotta Feeling Selling 300 000 Copies Reaching Platinum. It Peaked At #1 And Stayed There For 5 Weeks The Band's Longest Time On The Pole Position.

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